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Permanent LinkGeorge Hartley Purdy
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State Representative
Republican
| Farmer | |
| Floyd | |
| 36 | |
| 01/11/1915 - 04/19/1915 | |
| 88 |
Representative from Floyd county, was born in Ontario, Canada, August 27, 1866, of American parentage. Moved with his parents to Mason City, Iowa, in 1869, where he attended the public schools and later Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, where he took the Civil Engineering course, afterwards engaging in the grocery business at Spencer, Iowa, for ten years. He was married May 20, 1891, to Hattie Flint and to this union four children were born. In 1899 he moved back to Mason City and has since engaged in the growing and jobbing of fruit and raising registered Duroc-Jersey swine, moving to Rockford, Iowa, in 1910. He has held township and town offices and was elected representative in 1914. A republican in politics.